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Confidentiality and access to sexual health services
Sexual Health, 2009Background: Confidentiality concerns are often described as barriers to seeking sexual health care. There has been little research describing the relative importance of confidentiality to clients of sexual health clinics, and whether members of high-risk groups have greater concerns. This study aimed to determine the importance of confidentiality and
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Spatial Access to Health Services
2012Recent years have seen a renewed interest in a more integrated planning approach for service provision. Previously, government investment to improve access to public services has been prioritised either on the basis of the spatial distribution of services or on the availability of transport services.
Karyn Morrissey +4 more
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Unrestricted access to mental health services
Nursing Standard, 2002This study examines referrals to a nurse-led, community-based, acute psychiatric assessment and treatment centre in the north west of England which operates an open referral system. Data were collated over 12 months and the total number of assessments was 1,544. It focused on the appropriateness of emergency assessments, which accounted for 29 per cent
Carol Smith +3 more
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An Index of Accessibility for Ambulatory Health Services
Medical Care, 1979This paper discusses an Index developed and used to measure accessibility to health services provided on an outpatient basis at the Kaiser Community Health Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio. The Index is based on four levels of urgency or severity of illness and on the waiting times to get entry into the system.
Howard Simon +3 more
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Journal of child and adolescent psychopharmacology, 2016
OBJECTIVE Children's mental health problems collectively impose a staggering public health burden. However, the quality of regionally accessible children's mental healthcare varies greatly, with youth in rural and other remote communities particularly ...
K. Myers, Jonathan S. Comer
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OBJECTIVE Children's mental health problems collectively impose a staggering public health burden. However, the quality of regionally accessible children's mental healthcare varies greatly, with youth in rural and other remote communities particularly ...
K. Myers, Jonathan S. Comer
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Access To Care In The Indian Health Service
Health Affairs, 1993The Indian Health Service (IHS) is unique among U.S. private and public health programs in that free comprehensive health services are provided to eligible American Indians and Alaska Natives regardless of their ability to pay. However, resource limitations may compel some eligible persons to go outside of the IHS system to receive health care ...
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Rural Health: Access to Care and Services [PDF]
Home Health Care Management & Practice, 2010 Lack of access to quality health care has been a long-standing risk for rural Americans. Multiple factors are emerging that may increase this risk in the future. The National Association for Home Care continuously keeps rural access on the radar and supports legislation that will preserve home care access to vulnerable rural areas. Of special interest
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Equity, Access, and the Costs of Health Services
Medical Care, 1981Access to health care services for the poor and elderly have improved dramatically over the last 15 years, largely as a result of Medicare, Medicaid, and other Federal initiatives. The poor now consume roughly the same volume of health services as the nonpoor.
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Improving access to health services in Canada
Healthcare Management Forum, 2018The Commonwealth Fund 2017 report ranked Canada’s healthcare system low in access to care and last among all 11 counties studied in terms of timeliness of care. While long wait times for certain elective surgical procedures appear to be emblematic of Canadian Medicare, they are not inevitable.
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Hispanic access to health/mental health services.
The Psychiatric quarterly, 2002Currently, the Hispanic population of the United States is growing very rapidly. Despite the significance of this growth and the fact that it is expected that Hispanics will be soon the largest ethnic minority group in this country, the access to health/mental health care for the Hispanic population is rather limited.
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